Providing QoS-guaranteed services in current installed networks is an important issue, but only the deploying QoS services is not enough to guarantee their success: QoS management must also be provided. Nowadays, pol-icy-based management addresses this need, but such man-agement is not enough either. Network managers often deal with QoS tasks that cannot be performed using only policy-based management. This paper describes six im-portant QoS management-related tasks (QoS installation, operation maintenance, discovery, monitoring, analysis and visualization) and shows solutions that can help managers proceed with these tasks. Unfortunately, these solutions are independent from each other, leading to a scenario where integration is difficult. To solve this lack of integration, QAME (QoS-Aware Management Environ-ment) has been developed. QAME provides support to allow the execution of the defined QoS tasks in an inte-grated fashion.
Index Terms:
QoS management, policy-based management, management environment
Citation:
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco, "QAME - QoS-Aware Management Environment," compsac, pp.269, 25th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'01), 2001